Archive for December, 2008

As gozer has already mentioned, we have now moved the Thunderbird tinderboxes to a new home - Thunderbird3.0.
This is starting to reflect the current state of what we're building. For a couple of weeks now, we have been building Thunderbird ...

I pushed a patch today to make Thunderbird builds enter a few less directories in mail/themes because the builds didn't need to and it was just slowing things down (albeit a very small amount, but still worth being tidy).
Unfortunately I ...

Having felt like I've not blogged much for a while, here is a selection of things that have been happening recently:
We released Thunderbird 3.0 beta 1 :-)
There are some great experimental extensions to take a look at.
Lightning has now fixed ...

I've been using the Lightning Nightly Updater extension in Thunderbird nightlies for the last few months. This helps me as a developer to test out Lightning (by using it day to day) and see the current progress.
The extension has been ...

I've just checked in a patch that means we can now check whether comm-central is building against mozilla-central or mozilla-1.9.1.
MOZILLA_1_9_1_BRANCH is now defined when we are building against mozilla-1.9.1.
The focus for Thunderbird, SeaMonkey and Calendar projects is currently building comm-central ...

Now that mozilla-central has created a mozilla-1.9.1 release branch, we're updating the comm-central build system to build mozilla-1.9.1 by default.
Here's a little Q and A that I hope should answer most questions.
Q. Why are we doing this?
A. The next versions ...